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The United States and the European Union, especially Germany, should make a decision on Ukraine, different from the current one, which Russian President Vladimir Putin sees as weakness and continues to commit aggression. This is stated in an article published in U.S. newspaper Forbes, Ukrinform reported. “There can be no diplomatic solution...

Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners have shot down a Russian-made drone that attempted to fly over the positions of the anti-terrorist operation forces, the press center for the anti-terrorist operation has reported. “Accurate shooting was demonstrated by the anti-aircraft gunners of the anti-terrorist operation forces. In one sector of...

The EU’s sanctions list has been expanded with 13 separatists operating in eastern Ukraine and five companies. A senior European diplomat told this to a Ukrinform correspondent in Brussels on Thursday after a meeting of ambassadors of the EU member states. EU ambassadors approved additional sanctions against separatists operating in eastern...

Twenty-five percent of Russian citizens are confident that Russian troops are fighting in Donbas. This is stated in a survey conducted by Russia’s non-governmental Levada Center, a Ukrinform correspondent in Russia reported. When asked whether Russians think that Russian troops are now in Ukraine in the context of the armed conflict in...

Ukrposhta has suspended from November 27 the reception and delivery of letters and parcels on the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions that are not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities, the company’s press service has reported. If it is necessary to send mail to clients residing in the territories controlled by terrorists, mail can...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on MPs to work effectively so as to be able to submit an application for Ukraine’s accession to the European Union in five years. He said this in an extraordinary address on Ukraine’s domestic and international situation in the Verkhovna Rada on Thursday, a Ukrinform correspondent...

Incumbent Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has again been elected head of government. A total of 341 MPs voted for such a decision. Yatseniuk said in his speech in the Verkhovna Rada that he was ready to cooperate with the president. Earlier, Poroshenko said that he supported Yatseniuk’s candidacy and hoped the coalition would...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that Ukrainians should not be intimidated with the third world war. He said this from the parliament’s rostrum in his message on the internal and external situation in Ukraine. “It’s unnecessary to intimidate us with the third world war. In fact, nobody plans to start it,” he...

Bloc of Petro Poroshenko MP Volodymyr Hroisman has been elected Verkhovna Rada speaker. A total of 359 MPs voted for such a decision. Hroisman’s candidacy was supported by the coalition. In his speech, Hroisman promised to make every effort to restore confidence in the parliament. “We have to turn the Rada not into a brake, but into...

The head of the temporary presidium of the Verkhovna Rada, Volodymyr Hroisman, has announced the creation of a coalition of 302 MPs in the new parliament, a Ukrinform correspondent has reported. “Our coalition has been set up in a Ukrainian European parliament by a constitutional majority of 302 MPs,” Hroisman said.